Research and innovation go hand in hand at Facephi. That’s why our participation in international conferences is key: not only do we share the progress of our R&D team, but we also learn from what’s happening in the industry and academic community.
In September, we took part in four of the most relevant scientific forums in the sector, strengthening our contribution to scientific knowledge and advancing the evolution of our technological solutions.
Presentation of the PAD-ID Card Challenge results at IJCB 2025 in Japan
Earlier this year, we launched the PAD-ID Card Challenge 2025 together with h-da and Fraunhofer-IGD, supported by industry experts and the IEEE Biometrics Council. Its goal was clear: to address the lack of an independent and rigorous evaluation of presentation attacks on identity cards at an international level.
The challenge brought together 20 teams submitting 74 models for evaluation. The results, presented at the International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB 2025) — one of the world’s most prestigious biometrics conferences — provide a unique insight into the current state of the art and lay the foundations for future research.
During the event, the winners were announced, the most innovative models were shared, and our team engaged with the scientific community to explore new opportunities for collaboration in future editions.
Other international conferences
Facephi’s presence at leading scientific forums reflects our strong commitment to applied research and open innovation. In addition to IJCB, we recently participated in:
- ICDAR 2025 (Wuhan, China): where we presented TextSAM-LoRA, a disruptive approach to text detection in complex scenes that combines the Segment Anything Model with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) techniques, drastically reducing trainable parameters without compromising accuracy.
- CAIP 2025 (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain): where we showcased the research Enhanced Deep Learning DeepFake Detection Integrating Handcrafted Features, demonstrating how the combination of handcrafted and deep learning techniques enhances the robustness of deepfake detection systems.
- BIOSIG 2025 (Darmstadt, Germany): where we presented Online Augmentation for Presentation Attack Detection on ID Cards, an innovative real-time data generation technique that optimises scalability and efficiency in anti-fraud systems.
Our participation in these conferences reaffirms that, at Facephi, scientific excellence is a strategic pillar driving the development of increasingly secure, reliable, and future-ready digital identity solutions.